The U.S. says it has dispatched three B-2 stealth bombers on a training mission to the Asia-Pacific region amid growing tensions with North Korea.
The deployment was announced Wednesday by U.S. Strategic Command, which is responsible for U.S. nuclear forces. B-2 bombers are capable of launching nuclear as well as conventional weapons. They are based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.
Strategic Command said the bombers will conduct training with the Australian military during the deployment, which amounts to a show of force at a time of mounting tensions with North Korea. North Korea threatened pre-emptive nuclear strikes after the United States and South Korea began large-scale war games this month.
Strategic Command declined to say where the bombers will be operating from, or for how long.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
The USA should get out of south Korea, take its nuclear weapons out and its 30,000 troops out, and let the two Korean states negotiate their re-unification.
Then we could have two countries after the US.
I disagree with your through.
That sounds like Obummer talking, Nuke them if they start another war.,warn them first,and if they insist on dieing, Help them out. That Ego maniac they have for a leader,is a nut case.
And you think our leader is any better?
I think we may need to wait just long enough to get someone in office that will grant our military eminent force to deal with these wack ohs!
Jamie, I couldn’t agree with you more. You are so right!
Me too!
fat boy doesn’t WANT to negotiate! he is an eastern ISIS, he wants to destroy. What He needs is a non-nuclear strike to show him how vulnerable he is. Some B-2s some B-52s with HE and incendiary bombs will take care of him in one day. he’s all talk, one nuke on American soil means the END of NK. Fat boy wants war? he’s better be prepared to lose!
Another pacifist idiot . What part of reunification means north blows up south dont you get. People like you don’t get there are enemies out there who only exist to kill us why don’t you go live in a cave in the pacific where the Japanese had to be burned out because they wouldn’t surrender. Even better why don’t you go to Syria to negotiate in good faith with ISIS so we can watch them cut your non functioning head off. I don’t believe in abortion but it’s too bad your mother didn’t.
Dumb a_ _!?
Here we go again. The US can’t police the whole world.
I’m glad to see that our government is going to send a message of strength to the North Koreans. Although this North Korean president appears to be as deranged as his father and grandfather, I’m going to guess the military leaders may not be. Hopefully there are a few people in government that will see American military power at play and realize they don’t want to mess with us. Strength and an assurance of complete destruction are great deterrents. Dictator Kim doesn’t care that his family’s poor leadership has impoverished and starved the North Korean people, but he does care enough about his own life to not want it ended by a U.S. bomb.
Personally, i think that the BS’s should drop a full load of water balloons(filled with water, don’t get any ideas) just to show N. Korea that these planes may cross their airspace any time they wish – and that should there have to be a “next time,” it won’t be water that’s dropped.
Let ’em whine “provocation” all they like; what they understand is demonstrations of strength and resolve, not namby-pamby “negotiations” that amount to bribes of food and other necessities that N. Korea apparently does not wish to provide it’s slave population with.
Dammit; that should’ve read B 2’s.
Oh, brother. Ok, B TWO’s!
You do not negotiate with a mad man, terrorist or a very ratical communist government. Their leader Kim seems to be as trigger happy as they come and he lacks the brains to work with South Korea. It is my thought that if anything he wants everyone to work with him or be put to death. He cares not for the people of North Korea as they mostly live in slums and without much food for their families. I personally believe the people of North and South Korea could get along just fine with out government intervention. However, that will never happen as long as the North is controlled by a ratical dictator.
and whose fault is all this? the UN and harry Truman because we didn’t WIN the war, we lost and a truce was signed and that is ALL for 63 years. If we (UN) had WON, there would be no NK! But no one went to war to win. I still don’t know what the objective was.
You can’t negotiate with a leader like Kim or anyone else that is as deranged as he is. He will use any reason what so every to go to war with South Korea. It is just a matter of time before he does then it will be WW3
i don’t think there’s much of a chance that N. Korea will last long at all, should their insane leader launch any nukes that kill anyone anywhere on the planet.
If the nutbar-with-sprinkles does that, the Chinese should take him out – or whichever country was hit. It would be a shame that so many poor slaves of N. Korean dictators would die, too – so instead, maybe intense NSA scrutiny to pinpoint his whereabouts, then a tactical nuke to take him out.
Hard to say what the reaction of the remaining N. Koreans would be, though; they’ve been brainwashed into believing that their Fearless Leader is a God. OTOH, perhaps there’d be dancing in the streets like when the Wicked Witch of the West was killed, too.
I don’t think there’s much chance of China ‘taking him out’ as you suggest…they’re buddies!
Rick-
Possibly; i think that the Chinese are pretty smart, and they KNOW what ills the various “IL’s” have done to their people. Therefore, at least for the last 10 years or so, they’ve been distancing themselves from the N. Koreans – otherwise, the Chinese would have sent the supplies that the West has often been manipulated into supplying, right?
It’s kind of like “i hate you, but i need your food, so give it to me; it will make us strong enough to KILL you!”
Ingratitude is a mighty lousy attitude, ain’t it?
It’s also entirely possible that this nutbar with sprinkles is just whipping up another Orwellian “hate hour” to distract his people from their empty bellies and lousy stores full of shoddy goods, too…and doesn’t really mean it.
i say, call his bluff and give him NOTHING until he agrees to some international monitoring and regulation; if he refuses, isolate him even more…and if he makes the giant mistake of launching a nuke, kill it, then kill HIM.
The current leader of North Korea is a total despotic tyrannical dictator and has no hesitancy in elimination his own people whether they be the Defense Minister or High ranking generals just within the past year. He is a paranoid dictator with total control over all aspects of his country’s people, economy and military while maintaining total restriction on any outside communication or news for the populace. The people are fed 100% state controlled propaganda at all times and educated the same way. The economy is on the verge of a total collapse and already would have happened except for assistance still be provided by China and Russia. There is a high probability that this country being kept basically in the ‘dark ages’ will self-implode some day and possible sooner than some expect! Their despotic leader likes to beat a fairly rusty drum now and then while his people starve and are kept under mind and thought control for real!
If our Commander in Chief (Obama) had any stones he’d call the Chinese and give them an ultimatum to put a leash on their North Korean dog. The next step would be a precision strike against every N Korean station capable of firing long range ICBMs. Destroy their capability to launch these rockets. Do you have the stones Obama? They’re betting you don’t.
we don’t HAVE a CnC! We have a traitor/muslimterrorist/communist holding the WH hostage. he is all talk but he will be forced to ACT if there is in fact a launch heading our way. I agree, take out the ability to wage war and send them truly back into the 10th century where ISiS is
This is so stupid.
Why doesn’t everyone just brush off this spoiled brat in North Korea.
He just wants to talk tough the bully he is. He’s probably afraid of his own shado. Even the people in the country he leads is afraid of this guy.
Glad I don’t live their.
Maybe when we die and end up in hell its really North Korea.
Stead-
NK’s “Fearless Leader”(see the Bullwinkle cartoons) is like a 3-year-old with a loaded pistol with no safety on it. He’s too dangerous to be ignored, and he’s just itching to see his gun go off. IMO, just as in the past, he’s throwing a calculated temper tantrum to blackmail the west into supplying his regime with food and goods(again). The trouble with ignoring him might be likened to ignoring the woman who killed the family’s pet rabbit in an effort to extort the husband who had an affair with her(can’t remember the name of the movie).
The best thing possible for NK would be a military takeover after someone takes the nutbar out, so they can begin to re-join the semi-civilized world via re-educating the population as to the truth, allowing communication with the rest of the world, but especially with families sundered by the DMZ.
Any government that is assured they’re doing the Right Thing has no fear of their people being able to compare and contrast the results of their system of governance with those of all other countries on the planet; only those who fear legitimate revolution try to stifle, suppress, and tyrannize their people into submission.
If it wasn’t for an enemy. N. Koreans would have revolted a long time ago. They are spoon fed bs about impending invasions and how their clever leader has prevented it. Which is why they ensure the suffering . there is no meadia or press except for the government and there is no power to most of the country for Internet or even radio or TV. They only know whàt they are told. If they question they disappear.
N.Korea will not attack. They will just saber rattle and demand food and funding to be pasified. Th3 only reason for a bomb is so they can make greater demands…
The Chinese should be held responsible for n Korea’s actions and the Chinese will put a stop to it in a hurry. They are the only supporters of the north and use them as a distraction when needed to cover their own bad actions.